A fast-starting Harvey-Brunswick-Leschenault mauled the Harvey Bulls at home on Saturday to earn their first win of the season and in the process retain the Bottlemart Cup.
Luke McPherson
Shannon Hampton
Global lithium giant Albemarle has revealed plans to build a FIFO-style camp in the beachside haven of Binningup, which would house up to 1000 workers and ease pressure on the South West housing market.
Jacinta Cantatore
A man has been handed a fine for obstructing police from entering his home in Leschenault, where they later found his partner huddled in the corner of a room in the house, sobbing with her young child.
Harvey residents will soon be able to feel more connected after a $3.6m dollar Federal Government project to improve broadband services throughout the region.
Kasper Johansen
Behind the scenes of every event, community group or even every footy match, are the South West’s unsung heroes, volunteers making a big difference by giving their time and effort to help their community.
Premier Mark McGowan handed down his second State Budget as Treasurer, featuring multimillion-dollar pledges in targeted funding to boost the South West as he announced a $5.7 billion surplus for WA.
South West petrol prices will continue rising, according to the State’s fuel pricing watchdog, the halving of the fuel excise providing little relief for motorists.
Forrest MHR and Liberal Party candidate Nola Marino has reaffirmed her commitment to improve network connectivity across the South West, days away from the Federal election.
Labor’s candidate for Forrest has made an election pledge to improve a notorious mobile reception black spot along Forrest Highway.
A South West medical expert is leading a national call by GPs for whoever wins Saturday’s Federal election to urgently increase primary health care funding.
A fruit picker who tortured and brutally beat a cat has been jailed for a year over the act of animal cruelty, described as ‘sadistic’ and ‘savage’. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT
The Manjimup Rovers went down in a hard fought loss to Blackwood United in the SWSA Ladies Reserves competition at the weekend, while the men were convincingly beaten by league-leading Harvey.
Simmering tensions between rival bikies is being probed by gang crime squad detectives as a possible motive behind an attempted home invasion near the Perth Hills on Tuesday night.
Phil Hickey
Vaccinated travellers to Indonesia - including WA’s favourite overseas holiday destination Bali - will no longer be required to present a negative COVID-19 test upon entering the country.
Geoffrey Thomas
WA’s biggest disability service provider is closing large-scale industrial work sites it has run for 70 years, likely leaving hundreds without employment along with support staff.
Rebecca Le May
After a redistribution last year, 57 local governments now fall within O’Connor, a 1.1 million sqkm electorate spanning the South West, Great Southern, Wheatbelt and Goldfields.
Sarah Makse
A 24-year-old Australind man awaiting sentencing for a number of family violence offences, including choking his then-partner on two occasions on the same day, has been refused bail.
Carly Laden
An Australind man who was isolating at home after testing positive for COVID-19 has been accused of assaulting and strangling his partner in front of young children.
The company behind Tesla’s big battery in South Australia has revealed it is in the initial concept stages of plans to make Collie the location of an even bigger battery.
It’s been a big week for rugby in Geraldton, with Rugby WA and the Classic Wallabies putting on skills sessions at primary schools and high schools around town as they promote the game in the Mid West.
The daughter of a Geraldton woman who died while waiting for an ambulance has declared ‘action needs to be taken immediately’ as pressure grows on St John WA chief executive Michelle Fyfe.
The head of WA’s biggest teacher training institution has resigned after academics accused senior leaders of pressuring them to change grades so that failing students would pass.
Bethany Hiatt
A young man has told of his frightening encounter with a shark that left him with “a little bit of poo in my pants”.
Melissa Iaria
St John WA chief executive Michelle Fyfe has labelled the suggestion the not-for-profit is financially incentivised to ramp its ambulances outside hospitals ‘insulting’.
A “long overdue” proposed law would seek to prevent the kind of destruction seen at Juukan Gorge from ever happening again.
A cyclist has died five days after being involved in a fatal crash with a Tesla.
The former boss of the WA Police Union Harry Arnott has failed in his bid to win his job back, after WA’s Industrial Relations Commission revealed he was no longer a police officer.
Tim Clarke
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